News from 10/2011

Sweden’s Niki & The Dove released their digital-only EP The Drummer this week and in celebration of this celebratory event, we’re offering up their title track along with a special limited Blood Diamonds remix of “The Drummer” as well. Listen and grab a download of both tracks in exchange for your email address via the widget posted above here.

Niki & The Dove explain The Drummer
“The Drummer tells a story about a wrestle at night, in a no mans land, where everything is uncertain. It’s about the inevitable question of if you’re choosing the right direction in your life or not.”

The Drummer EP Track Listing:
Sundog The Drummer
Last Night
Mother Protect
The Breath of the World
Manon
The Birth of the Sun

“‘Only in Dreams,’ the second Dum Dum Girls album, seethes with a beautiful, raging confidence, louder and fuller than anything they’ve done before, and better than the onetime peers they’re leaving behind. These lush and reverb-thick songs are ambitious and pointed about subjects that often drag: leaving, wasting away, aching.” – New York Times (Only in Dreams album review, 2011)

This month’s new episode of 120 Minutes airs tonight, Wed., Oct 26th, on MTV2. And what makes this interesting to us and also, we hope, to you is that this episode will feature both an interview with and a music video by the very great band Low!

We have suspicions that the music video will be the one for the song “Especially Me” from Low’s 2011 full-on full-length album release C’mon. What’s in that interview is really anyone’s guess.

“120 Minutes”: with Low airs tonight (verrrry early in the morning on Wed., Oct. 26th, aka late at night on Tuesday, Oct. 25th) on MTV2 at 3 am ET/12 am PT.

As countless can attest, a live Twilight Singers show is truly an epic experience. For the first time ever, there will now be recorded proof. The Twilight Singers will release their first ever live album Live in New York on November 15th.

Recorded at Webster Hall in New York City this past May, the show was easily one of the highlights from the band’s world tour in support of their latest release Dynamite Steps. Live in New York features 21 songs from the band’s entire career including: “Teenage Wristband,” “I’m Ready,” “Annie Mae,” “On the Corner,” and many others.

Live in New York will be released digitally worldwide. However, a limited-edition, deluxe double-CD is available directly through the band’s website.

This deluxe edition will feature the entire unedited New York performance and will only be available for purchase prior to November 15th. This CD will not be available in stores. Fans who purchase the deluxe CD edition will immediately receive the track “Teenage Wristband” via email and will also receive the full album digitally on the street date.

Because it’s really pretty rare that we put out digital-only releases (though, in the near term, with the Oct. 18 release of The Drummer EP by Niki and the Dove, this will be substantially less unusual…), please note that…

On September 27th, we put out our first release from South Africa’s Spoek Mathambo. Produced by Spoek in collaboration with Copenhagen-based future-bass artist Chllngr, Put Some Red on It is a 6-song digital-only EP featuring two tracks (“Put Some Red on It” and “Dog to Bone”) that will also appear in some form on Spoek’s as-yet-unscheduled 2012 debut full-length, plus remixes of those tracks and a brief intro piece. We’re just ridiculously excited about the music Spoek’s making and this EP provides a glimpse at a album we hope you’ll soon look forward to as much as we do.

Right now, in exchange for signing up for Spoek’s email list, you can get an mp3 of the title track from this EP right here.